Approaching the date of one-year anniversary of the outbreak of full-fledged war in Ukraine, cyber defenders addressed the risks of potential attacks against Ukraine and its allies by russian offensive forces. On February 23, CERT-UA cybersecurity researchers revealed the malicious activity attributed to the UAC-0056 hacking group, which was observed in malicious campaigns against Ukraine […]
February 2023 can be marked as a month of ongoing adversary campaigns against Ukraine, exploiting the phishing attack vector and leveraging remote access software. Close on the heels of phishing attacks spreading Remcos RAT and abusing Remote Utilities software, another mass email distribution targeting Ukrainian organizations garners attention from cyber defenders. The latest CERT-UA#6011 alert […]
Hot on the heels of the massive email distribution in the recent malicious campaign targeting Ukrainian state bodies and leveraging Remcos (Remote Control and Surveillance) Trojan, threat actors exploit another remote administration software dubbed Remote Utilities to hit Ukrainian organizations. CERT-UA warns the global cyber defender community of ongoing phishing attacks attributed to the UAC-0096 […]
Remcos Trojan (Remote Control and Surveillance) is frequently delivered by threat actors leveraging phishing attack vectors. The malware currently reemerges in the cyber threat arena to target Ukrainian government entities. On February 6, 2023, cybersecurity researchers released a new CERT-UA#5926 alert detailing the mass email distribution impersonating the Ukrtelecom JSC aimed to spread Remcos malware […]
Since the outbreak of the global cyber war, state bodies of Ukraine and its allies have become targets of diverse malicious campaigns launched by multiple hacking collectives. Threat actors frequently leverage phishing attack vectors to perform their adversary campaigns, like in December 2022’s cyber attacks distributing DolphinCape and FateGrab/StealDeal malware. On February 1, 2023, CERT-UA […]
The russia-linked Sandworm APT group (aka UAC-0082) has been continuously targeting Ukrainian public systems and critical infrastructure for at least a decade. This group is responsible for massive blackouts throughout the country in 2015-2016 caused by the infamous BlackEnergy malware. That was followed by the NotPetya campaign in 2017, which eventually ended up creating a […]
Since russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the infamous Trident Ursa russia-affiliated hacking group also tracked as Armageddon APT aka Gamaredon or UAC-0010 has been launching its offensive operations targeting Ukraine and its allies. For over ten months, the hacking collective has performed a series of phishing cyber attacks covered in the corresponding […]
Phishing attacks on Ukrainian state bodies spreading diverse malware strains have not been a rarity throughout 2022. Hard on the heels of a phishing cyber attack against Ukraine distributing DolphinCape malware, another phishing campaign is causing a stir in the cyber threat arena. On December 18, 2022, CERT-UA researchers issued the latest alert tracked as […]
Since the outbreak of the global cyber war, SOC Prime stays on the frontline helping Ukraine and its allies defend from russian aggression. On December 8, 2022, CERT-UA researchers received information from the cybersecurity department of the state Railway Transport Organization of Ukraine “Ukrzaliznytsia” about the distribution of phishing emails impersonating the State Emergency Service […]
Since the outbreak of the global cyber war, cyber attacks against Ukraine and its allies leveraging info-stealers and malicious payloads have been causing a stir in the cyber threat arena. In the latest cyber attack on the Ukrainian organization, threat actors have applied a diverse offensive toolkit, including the Vidar info-stealer and the notorious Cobalt […]